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User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored....

Bug #136468 reported by Mark
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Bug Description

Running Gutsy.

I get the following error after entering username at login:

"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. Users $HoME/.drmc file must be owned by user and not writable to others"

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TJ (tj) wrote :

What permssions does the file have?

$ ls -al ~/.dmrc

On mine I see:

-rw------- 1 tj tj 27 2007-08-26 20:17 /home/tj/.dmrc

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Mark (nix4me) wrote : Re: [Bug 136468] Re: User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored....

TJ wrote:
> What permssions does the file have?
>
> $ ls -al ~/.dmrc
>
> On mine I see:
>
> -rw------- 1 tj tj 27 2007-08-26 20:17 /home/tj/.dmrc
>
>
 nix4me@nix4me-desktop:~$ ls -l .dmrc
ls: .dmrc: No such file or directory

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Mark (nix4me) wrote :

TJ wrote:
> What permssions does the file have?
>
> $ ls -al ~/.dmrc
>
> On mine I see:
>
> -rw------- 1 tj tj 27 2007-08-26 20:17 /home/tj/.dmrc
>
>
 I found the problem and fixed it.

Somehow my home dir had 777 permissions.
I changed to 700 and all is fine now.

nix4me

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Jeffrey Flaker (jflaker) wrote :

If you share your HOME folder, the permissions are changed. I had my home shared and tried setting permissions and ownership with no resolve. I unshared the folder and the problem went away.

When sharing, permissions are set on your folders....

Possible resolution: Don't allow sharing of $HOME folder. Share deeper folders only.

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